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W. EMERSON 8v R. M. HOBBS.

i GARDINGAENGINE.

No. 244,743; Patented July 26,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM EMERSON, OF SACO, AND REUBEN'M. HOBBS, OF BIDDEFORD, ME.

CARDING-ENGINE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 244,743, dated July 26,1881. Application filed April 25, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM EMERSON, of Saco, and EEUEEN M. HoBBs, ofBiddeford, of the county of York, of the State of Maine, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Garding-Engines; and We do hereby declarethe same to be described in the following specification and representedin the accompanying drawings, of which-- Figure 1 is a view,inperspective, of a carding-machine with our invention. Fig. 2 is a topview of the lower delivery-rollmand the `and delivery-rolls in end view.Fig. 4 is a guards applied to its shaft and the frame of the machine.Fig. 3 is atransverse section of one of the guards, and showing thetrumpet rear elevation of the trumpet and guards.

Our invention, the nature of which is defined in the claim hereinaftermade, is to support the trumpet and upper delivery-roll, and to coverthe shaft of the lower delivery-roll,

in manner to prevent the sliver or fibrous ma` terial combed from thedoffer from catching upon and being wound about the said shaft. Theinventionis also to obtain between the said shaft and doer a free openspace for the discharge of librous or other matters raised from wool inits passage from the doffer to the trumpet.

-In Fig. 1 of .the said drawings, A denotes the doier, B the comb, C thetrumpet, D and E the delivery-rolls, and F the frame, of thecarding-engine.

The shaft of the lower roller, E, is represented at G in the drawings.

In carrying out our invention we extend over the shaft G, from the rollE to the next adjacent sides of the frame F, two rigid guards, HV H,each being a plate bent or curved trans- '40 versely, as shown in Fig.3. These guards, at

their outer ends, we fasten fIrmly to the sides of the frame F. Thereextends back from each guard, at its inner end, an ear, a, to enter anotch, d, in one of two short legs, b b, extending down from thetrumpet, in manner-as represented in Figs. 3 and 4, the said ears andnotched legs serving, with the guards, to support the trumpet inposition. Furthermore,

from each guard H there extends upward, in a ered by the guards, so asto prevent the wool from the doffercatchin g and being wound upon :suchshaft, but that the trumpet and upper feed-roller are supported by theguards and by the ears, arms, and legs, as hereinbefore described, andthat there is between the guards and the doft'er a clear space for thedischarge of waste matters shaken or. separated from thc wool in itspassage from the doier to the trumpet.

In a carding engine or machine, in combination with the frame F, trumpetC, and the delivery-rolls D and E in front thereof, and with the shaft Gof the. lower of said rolls, the two stationary guards H H, arranged asrepresented, with the said shaft G and its roll E, and secured to theframe F, and provided with means, essentially as described, forsupporting the trumpet and upper roll.

WM. EMERSON. REUBEN M. HOBBS. Witnesses:

E. W. EATON, CEAS. W. BANKS.

